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<p><em>"looking for the most compact canvas bag...that will comfortably fit..."</em><br>

 

 

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The key phrase is "comfortably fit". I've had both a Domke F2 and an A&A Sabastio's Reporter Satchel. In my opinion the F2 would only work with the lenses un-mounted and the A&A would be tight. <br>

 

 

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I carried a D200 with a Nikon 17-55 and also a Sigma 30mm 1.4 plus SB800 flash, charger and misc cards in the Sabastio's and it was a manageable but tight. I loved the bag and now use it to carry a D700, and two primes (35 and 50) plus the flash and other items (no zooms though). <br>

 

 

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I can't recommend the A&A bag enough; it's perfect as far as I'm concerned. But unfortunately I think you may have to order it to see if you can get everything into (and out of it) comfortably.<br>

http://www.artisanandartist.com/bags/gcam7000.htm</p>

 

<p>I think Maddoff should consider himself lucky. If it was Weegee, he'd have shot him twice, arranged the corpse, re-positioned the hat, and then taken the picture.</p>

<p>Show us one epic shot Dan. Nothing in your portfolio backs up your talk.</p>

<p>You must be joking, right?</p>

<p>Absolutely true...</p>

<p>You know, I was wondering the same thing. Not to be rude but why couldn't most of the questions Jen has asked be answered by an hour of experimenting with the camera and evaluating the results? </p>

<p>Wow, looks pretty nice to me.</p>

<p>With about two exceptions, this is such an unfortunate thread.</p>

<p>Thanks for suggestions, they are Christmas presents so Kinko's might be a pretty good option in terms of fast turn around.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">I'm sure this has been asked but a forum search didn't really provide many useful links: I'm looking for a recommendation for an online resource to make a few custom photo-calendars.  Very small quantities, 1 or 2 of each and would prefer better image quality than super-cheap pricing.  I know of Snapfish and Ofoto, but nothing seems to stand out as great.  Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. </span><br>

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I am a member of a community darkroom. There are more than two dozen members sharing 5 enlargers and two wet spaces. You simply call up and schedule your time with the dark room manger on a first-come first-served basis. After work it can be a little tight on some days but it no one ever complains. I think it's a great system; I'm not sure why it wouldn't work for other types of shared spaces.

Excellent, thanks.

BTW, very nice images, and I generally don't care much for landscapes.

Randy, how do you like the new screen? I'm thinking about getting it for some manual focus lenses.

http://www.jorgetorralba.com/p1050280655

His name is Mr. Nikon. I've met him, he's a swell guy.

<I>"I could have been a little more pushy with the drunken bride..."</I> and ended up in the ocean?

<I>"I don't bother to check when I'm posting online - it's not worth my time."</I>

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Yes, why bother to make an effort when the people taking the time to respond to you mean so little.

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And as for the image critiques offered, all I can say is that I would rather 30 people I don't know call my images shit, if it was their honest assessment, than have them dance around the subject. Reality is never delivered on a sugared spoon: you get it straight-up. If you want to be coddled, give your mother a ring.

I agree with Matt (both of them)...

 

First of all this isn't a model, this is a friend of the photographer, and second this isn't a small mole in an inconspicuous location. This type of situation needs to be handled with care and understanding given, that without knowing the relationship between these two, a suggestion to remove anything might be construed as an insult.

 

For all we know she might consider her mole a beauty mark. I say tread lightly.

<I>"A 50mm lens is not considered a portrait lens even on a crop camera."</I>

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David, that's an interesting comment, as often you will hear people suggest an 85mm (roughly equivalent to 50mm

on a crop camera) as the "ideal" focal length for portraits.

<I>"...shoot an entire wedding with a fish-eye lens..."</I>

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Now <I>that</I> would be one crazy wedding album.

Always on my M6, never on my D700. My completely biased, non-scientific highly opinionated...uhm, well…opinion is that I get more ghosting/flare/whatever with the digital sensor.

Such a compulsive geek, yet somehow his romantic love of the image comes through.

 

Thanks.

<I>"I bet if you saw the same shot of the girl with a lens with better bokeh you would like it better."</I>

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Why is it that I always find these tautological constructs so amusing?

<I>"...but the background is just distracting."</I>

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That's funny, I actually like the background...